Author: STEENIS, C.G.G.J. VAN,
Title: The Mountain Flora of Java. [First and only edition].
Description: Leiden, Brill, 1972. Folio, original cloth, gilded title on front cover with gilded publ. logo at tail, gilded title on spine. (viii), 90pp. of text, frontisp. (some portrs.), 57 fine coloured plates featuring plants in natural size after original drawings made on-the-spot, with extensive scientific descriptive text on facing pp. out-of-text, approx. 100 black/white illustrations on plates after photographs, sketch-maps and tables in text, & c. 100 ills. (of which sketch-maps), select index, errata-leaf loosely inserted. Depicts 456 species of flowering plants native in the mountains of Java made from living specimens in col. This publ. of 459 accurate drawings at natural size is a great asset to tropical botany, because many were never illsd. & still more never in their natural colour. An excellent publ. of great value. Very rare & difficult to locate, publ. in a very ltd. edn. Good copy. (bds. sunned alongside spine, 2 corners sligthly damaged.)

Keywords: flora mountains java science herbal plants horticulture research indonesia southeast asia botany